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Judging from comments made during a brainstorming session Nov. 3, the public and Henry County Public Library staff are on the same page, in terms of what amenities are wanted in a new library facility.

“A lot of things we’ve discussed as a staff were brought up” during the public meeting, which drew about 20 county residents, library Director Joe Schweiss said last week.

The library board of directors is in the early stages of planning and is negotiating for a 3-acre lot in Eminence, where it hopes to build a new 14,000-square-foot facility.

A Henry County man facing animal cruelty charges was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 20, at 25 Allison Lane in rural Campbellsburg early Tuesday afternoon.
Trooper Michael Webb, public information officer with Kentucky State Police Post 5, said a family member had stopped by the property and discovered the body of Kenneth H. Smith, 71, in a vehicle.

U.S. Marshals have arrested a couple suspected of operating a large puppy mill in rural Campbellsburg.

Terri Smith, 51, was arrested at a trailer park in Bullitt County at 7:30 a.m., according to Chief Deputy Brian Parrish. She was initially booked at the Oldham County Detention Center and thentransferred to Carroll County Detention Center later in the morning, Parrish said.

The diagnosis three years ago was tantamount to a death sentence for Bonnie Kidwell of Eminence.
For some time, Kidwell, now 57, had had problems breathing. When the situation worsened, she was treated for pneumonia. When that treatment failed to work, she was hospitalized. The doctors still believed she was fighting pneumonia, but after a week with no improvement, the tests began.

For many area residents, it just isn’t Christmas without a visit to the living nativity scene in Bethlehem.
The event, which has been held every year since 1959, is sponsored by the tiny city’s three churches – Bethlehem Baptist, Bethlehem United Methodist and Point Pleasant Christian.

It’s unusual to see an owl in the daytime, so Bobby Heitzman was surprised one early fall morning to see a great horned owl sitting on the fence in his back yard on Second Street in Campbellsburg.

So he urged his wife, Kathy, to get her cell phone and take photos of the bird from the kitchen window, where he was standing.

After Kathy took a few shots, Bobby opened the back door. The bird didn’t move, so he suggested she try to take some through the open doorway. When the bird still didn’t move, Kathy continued to move toward the fence.